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This article is laughable. Knocking the developers by saying Myers and Briggs had no training is akin to knocking the first powered flight by saying Orville and Wilbur Wright had no training.

It's not difficult to imagine evolution has discovered a way to segregate us into different personalities for the advantage to form cohesive social groups with specializations for survival. Who hasn't observed the difference between introvert and extravert in their own interactions? Is it a stretch to envision a couple more dichotomies exist?

Ask people to answer questions that will sort them into 16 bins and isn't it logical to assume those bins might have traits in common?

There are plenty of problems with MBTI and by all means, develop a better science. I tend to characterize people into their MBTI type in order to better interact with them. I find it useful and understandable, even predictive. Parlor trick? Perhaps, but on a couple of occasions now, I've accurately predicted a new friend's MBTI type simply by observing them and then having them take the test to confirm. You then have a useful basic mental model of them.

Unfortunately, while I can fly in a 777 nearly halfway around the world now due in part to the Wrights, there is no personality tool 777 equivalent.